The Great Mistake

<h4>Paul Reitter teaches in the German Department at Ohio State University, where he is also the director of the Humanities Institute. With Louis Menand and Chad Wellmon, he recently co-edited The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook (2017). His writing has appeared in The Nation, Harper’s, The Paris Review, TLS, and Bookforum.</h4>

Paul Reitter

<h4>Chad Wellmon is associate professor of German Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the co-editor, with Paul Reitter and Louis Menand, of the forthcoming The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook (Chicago) and the author, most recently, of Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University (Johns Hopkins).</h4>

Chad Wellmon

Field of Dreams: Public Higher Education in the United States

Education

Remaking the University

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Chad Wellmon is associate professor of German Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the co-editor, with Paul Reitter and Louis Menand, of the forthcoming The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook (Chicago) and the author, most recently, of Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University (Johns Hopkins).